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" Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet. "
Tom Ford
Quiet
Life
Sweet
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" Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth. "
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" The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love. "
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Beauty
I Love
" Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever. "
Tom Ford
Things
Ever
Silliest
" I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person. "
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" There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny. "
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People
Today
" I don't want to find myself designing for the press. "
Tom Ford
Press
Find
Myself
" Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection. "
Tom Ford
Back
Good
Lost
" I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things. "
Tom Ford
Culture
American
America
" I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet! "
Tom Ford
Time
Daughter
Change
" I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied. "
Tom Ford
Popular
School
Bullied
" We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy. "
Tom Ford
Happy
World
Live
" Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. "
Tom Ford
Him
Copy
Take
" I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. "
Tom Ford
Fashion
Love
Me
" I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it. "
Tom Ford
Hate
Forget
Hair
" I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me. "
Tom Ford
Proud
Love
Money
" My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products. "
Tom Ford
You
Look
Better
" On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe. "
Tom Ford
Dog
Want
Live
" British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level. "
Tom Ford
Streets
See
You
" The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar. "
Tom Ford
Directing
Film
Done
" I haven't had any plastic surgery - despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don't think of that as plastic surgery any more. "
Tom Ford
More
People
Plastic Surgery
" I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes. "
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Want
Clothes
Beautiful
" I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie. "
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I Am
America
Tie
" We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that. "
Tom Ford
Soft
Spoiled
Comfort
" I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field. "
Tom Ford
Fashion
Think
Place
" I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life. "
Tom Ford
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Women
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" When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them. "
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Woman
Love
Energy
" We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator? "
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President
Actor
Why
" I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy. "
Tom Ford
Power
Thoughts
Walk
" If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks. "
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You
Know
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" When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. "
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Life
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